- Fixed a bug in client-go where new clients with customized `Dial`, `Proxy`, `GetCert` config may get stale HTTP transports. ([#95427](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95427), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw)) [SIG API Machinery]

		if dobj.TargetArn != "" && dobj.TargetArn != tgtEntry.Arn {
			continue
		}
		tgtClnt := globalBucketTargetSys.GetRemoteTargetClient(bucket, tgtEntry.Arn)
		if tgtClnt == nil {
			// Skip stale targets if any and log them to be missing at least once.
			replLogOnceIf(ctx, fmt.Errorf("failed to get target for bucket:%s arn:%s", bucket, tgtEntry.Arn), tgtEntry.Arn)
			sendEvent(eventArgs{

- Fixes a rare race condition handling requests that timeout ([#107459](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107459), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery]
- Mount-utils: Detect potential stale file handle ([#107039](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107039), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Storage]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

* rkt: Convert image name to be a valid acidentifier ([#34375](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34375), [@euank](https://github.com/euank))
* Remove stale volumes if endpoint/svc creation fails. ([#35285](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35285), [@humblec](https://github.com/humblec))

* update list of vailable resources ([#32687](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32687), [@jouve](https://github.com/jouve))
* Remove stale volumes if endpoint/svc creation fails. ([#35285](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35285), [@humblec](https://github.com/humblec))

- Resolves an issue that causes winkernel proxier to treat stale VIPs as valid ([#113558](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113558), [@daschott](https://github.com/daschott)) [SIG Network and Windows]

- Fixed clearing of rate-limiter for the queue of checks for cleaning stale pod disruption conditions. The bug could result in the PDB synchronization updates firing too often or the pod disruption cleanups taking too long to happen. ([#114770](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114770), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo))...

* fix race condition issue when detaching azure disk ([#60183](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60183), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fix kubelet PVC stale metrics ([#59170](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59170), [@cofyc](https://github.com/cofyc))

* This fix prevents a GCE PD volume from being mounted if the udev device link is stale and tries to correct the link. ([#66832](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66832), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))

- The CRD handler now properly re-creates stale CR storage to reflect CRD update. ([#79114](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79114), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw))